Just wanted to learn what my friends on the site think, how far we can relate success and failure of product with leadership, if some apple product is successful is it due to its leadership or if MS released windows RT failed due to bad leadership.

You reminded me of Macintosh Computer, Apple co-founder and former Apple engineer, Steve Wozniak, has said that the Macintosh failed under Steve Jobs, and that it wasn't until Jobs left that it became a success.

Dear Mr. Cook. I have been a die hard APPLE fan from the start...but you have lost me with this iphone 5c....what a total pc of junk!!!!! APPLE indeed found the formula for creating crap and instilling in people the desire for the latest version of icrap. The tease which is the focus of this article is foreplay that leads to huge disappointment. Slimmer, shinier, better camera? and is there is better joke than Gorilla Glass? I dropped mine of a CARPET and it shattered....rendering it uttrerly useless. I have insurance but find that my CO-PAY is $179. Now I am again indentured to Verizon in a 2 year contract and have resorted to using my old 3g version of iphone which somehow is still fully functional despite being dropped numerous times. I was thinking of driving up to the Infinite Loop and tossing this crackerjack toy of a phone through your window. Ok, I am old school and OK, I am/was a fan of the late SJ and I cannot help but wonder if he would have allowed this junky thing to have been released under the good name of APPLE. This thing violates the standard we had come to expect. I am not alone. I hear every day people saying they will NEVER buy another APPLE product. Just 'sayin.......we have seen behind the curtain, Mr.OZ. All the smoke and mirror and tease you can muster will never induce me to spend any of my very hard earned $ on another thing you produce. Shame shame shame on you for letting the integrity and ingenuity this company once possessed go up in a plume of fetid stench. I have no choice but to endure my loss and go purchase...gasp....an android.

Dear Mr. Cook. I have been a die hard APPLE fan from the start...but you have lost me with this iphone 5c....what a total pc of junk!!!!! APPLE indeed found the formula for creating crap and instilling in people the desire for the latest version of icrap. The tease which is the focus of this article is foreplay that leads to huge disappointment. Slimmer, shinier, better camera? and is there is better joke than Gorilla Glass? I dropped mine of a CARPET and it shattered....rendering it uttrerly useless. I have insurance but find that my CO-PAY is $179. Now I am again indentured to Verizon in a 2 year contract and have resorted to using my old 3g version of iphone which somehow is still fully functional despite being dropped numerous times. I was thinking of driving up to the Infinite Loop and tossing this crackerjack toy of a phone through your window. Ok, I am old school and OK, I am/was a fan of the late SJ and I cannot help but wonder if he would have allowed this junky thing to have been released under the good name of APPLE. This thing violates the standard we had come to expect. I am not alone. I hear every day people saying they will NEVER buy another APPLE product. Just 'sayin.......we have seen behind the curtain, Mr.OZ. All the smoke and mirror and tease you can muster will never induce me to spend any of my very hard earned $ on another thing you produce. Shame shame shame on you for letting the integrity and ingenuity this company once possessed go up in a plume of fetid stench. I have no choice but to endure my loss and go purchase...gasp....an android.

I think that it is hard to speculate at this point just what this means for consumers in 2014. Is Apple going to release another blockbuster product? They probably need to, but I wonder just how groundbreaking something like a smartwatch can be.

I know people who have the Samsung watch and those who own a Pebble, but I just don't see it as that game changing.

Can Apple do something cannibalistic like having the watch replace the iPhone? Maybe.

No disrespect to Tim, but Steve Jobs was a brand and a thinker on his own. Tim Cook is trying to draw grand innovation out of his employees but that is not the nature of Apple employees, they rallied behind Steve J's grand vision and innovated to his perfectionist demands.

Repermuting screen sizes, battery life, etc. is not innovation; that's just Apple employees placating their echo of the ghost of Steve Jobs who would've demanded a thinner, lighter, tighter, sleeker of whatever he came up with.

For Apple to reinvent something, the leader has to look WAY outside the box, but Tim is all about the box (he's the operations guy); he is to Apple what Balmer was to Microsoft; although Cooke is probably a much kinder and less rigid a person.

Apple has started to "copy" samsung and microsoft! (?) that statement itself should speak volumes. Apple, whenever has been successful, has never been a follower, and shouldn't be. It needs bolder stronger direction, while still keeping its bread-and-butter earners going ahead as leaders.

I hope that Apple will find the innovative and bold leadership—but that would require the board of directors to be very bold and preemptively think about replacing Tim.

I do find that Apple may have some of the best products on the market but that is no excuse for their bad behaviour.

While companies have Directors like Tim Cook, customers will only suffer because of Apple's total disregard for customer service.

I have found the Board of Directors of Apple, totally void of either good manners or good customer service. When staff are so arrogant it is bad, but their lack of intelligence and customer service is very offensive.

The only reason this behaviour is able to continue, is the Board of Directors and their failure to act.

One main suggestion if you have to buy an Apple product, please buy it from anyone else than Apple in the UK.

Some five month's after writing to Tim Cook and the Board of Directors of Apple, still no reply.

Has Mr Cook forgot a major fact, he may be the CEO of Apple, yet he is still just another employee of Apple that is giving bad customer service.

Why the iphone or Apple products is so costly for Chinese customers? Such consumer electronic products are updating in every monthes.There are so many compotitors in China mainland. If you can not make discount and make some innovation tech. How can you develop in the next years?

I am using Chinese XIAOMI phones,it is easy to use with low price.I concern every new products they release. Because it is always updating the system or tech from our users' ideas.

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